Barbed fence-wire



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NITED ST TES EDWVIN S. LENOX, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

BARBED FENCE-WIRE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,783, dated June 24,1884.

Application filed May 31, 1883. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN S. LENOX, of \Vorcester, in the State ofMassachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Barbed Fence- Wire, ofwhich the following is a specification.

Barbed fence-wire has been made in which the barb has been twistedaround the longitudinal wire and compressed so that the barbed wire isindented more 'or less into the longitudinal wire. This has been donefor the purpose of preventing the barbs moving uponthe wire; but thelongitudinal wire is weakened by being reduced in size where thecompression takes place. In other instances bends have been made in thewire, and the wire has also been formed with burs by incisions into thewire, or by upsetting it endwise so as to form projections that hold thebarbs. All these tend to injure the wire.

My invention relates to a barbed fence-wire having proj eotions on oneor more sides thereof, in combination with barbed wires wrapped aroundthe longitudinal wire so as to be held in place by said projections.These projections hence prevent the barbs slipping endwise upon thefence-wire or revolving around the same, and the fence-wire is notweakened, because I employ a longitudinal wire that is rolled down tothe proper size, leaving proj ections at the desired distances apart, atthe sides of which such barb-wires are wrapped.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows a piece of fence-wire with the barbaround the same. Fig. 2 is a cross-section. Fig. 3 is a separatecross-section of the wire, and Fig. 4 is a side view of the wire.

The wire a is to be of a uniform or nearly uniform size throughout,except at the projections b, which are on one or both sides of 0 thewire, and such projections are left when the wire passes through itslast rolling operation, so that the section of the wire through theprojection is but little changed by the rolling of the wire the lasttime.

The barbs d are made of one or two pieces of wire, pointed at the endsand wrapped around the fence-wire a in such a manner that one or moreconvolutions come at opposite sides of the projection b,- hence suchbarbs cannot slip alongupon the fence-wire. Neither can such barbsrevolve if the projection is only at one side, because the portion ofthe wire between the convolutions crosses the path of the projection b,as shown in Fig. 1. I however may use two projections near each other,and wrap the barb around the wire between such projection.

I do not limit myself to any particular charactor of barb or barb-wire,as these may be varied without changing the character of my invention.

More than one longitudinal wire may be used, if desired, and the barbsmay be made of two wires interlocked.

I claim as my invention- The combination, in a barbed fence-wire, of alongitudinal wire having projections at intervals, and barb-wirestwisted around the longitudinal wire with the convolutions at both sidesof the projections, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 21st day of May, A. D. 1883.

EDXVIN S. LENOX.

Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINOKNEY, WILLIAM G. Mom.

